Mental Models

Mental Models

Chronological Snobbery

Mar 08, 2021
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This is a type of thinking that states that the stuff of earlier times is inferior to that of the present. Chronological snobbery has its basis in another bias called the “Appeal to novelty”, where you are constantly looking for newer things but not necessarily better things.

The argument is based on the virtue of temporal priority (earlier times) or the…

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